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Anonymous
July 2, 2010
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Flash Builder 4 - Debugger fails to connect

  • July 2, 2010
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I've looked at the various other threads but no luck so far.

I'm using Flash Builder 4 and the Flex API 4 and until yesterday all was well - i.e. I could run my app in debug mode. Somehow today things stopped working. Not sure why - I didn't tweak anything in Flash Builder's options. When launching any app (most complicated to the simplest) I get a status bar telling me

launching: waiting for Adobe Flash Player to connect to debugger

that always gets stuck at 57%. Then after a few minutes I get

Failed to connect; session timed out.

Ensure that:

  1. You compiled your Flash application with debugging on.

  2. You are running the debugger version of Flash Player.

I'm using Chrome on Windows 7. I really need to debug.

thank you for any help.

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      Anonymous
      August 6, 2010

      Hopefully Adobe is reading this. I've had this exact same problem since FlexBuilder v3. It's extremely frustrating. I have also experienced this with multiple versions of Firefox and IE all running debugger Flash players, and it has happened about 10 times so far this morning. Restarting Flash Builder sometimes lets me do maybe two or three builds before it happens again. I'd appreciate a more detailed report from Adobe on what exactly is the problem, especially since it is a huge time waster.

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      Adobe Employee
      Alex J Harui
      Adobe Employee
      August 6, 2010

      Are you referring to a specific bug? If not, file one with a project so we

      can analyze.

      Also see the "flashlog.txt" thread from yesterday. Maybe PS is a factor

      here as well.

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      Anonymous
      August 6, 2010

      Yes, this is a specific bug that's been around a long time. I've experience this on multiple machines and many different browsers. I also thought I had opened a ticket several years ago and got the same answers that only provided temporary fixes: e.g. re-install project, re-install Flash/FlexBuilder etc.

      - Where do I go to officially file a bug? Do I have to have a support contract with Adobe to do this?

      - Can you please provide a link to the "flashlog.txt" post? I searched for it and didn't find anything from yesterday.

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      VRPDeveloper
      Participant
      July 2, 2010

      It happens many a time ...but you can solve it in 3 ways

      1) Clean the project and try.

      2) Close flex builder and reopen it. try it...If that doesn't work than go for 3 option

      2) Change your workspace and import that project in it or best is create new one and make the changes in it...

      Sometimes the workspace get corrupted and so it happens...

      If this post answers your question or helps, please kindly mark it as such.

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      Anonymous
      July 2, 2010

      Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I've tried all three and had no luck. In fact, I've tried to create a new super simple project that has 1 button and does nothing and the debugger won't work there either.

      Interestingly enough, I just found out that if I run stuff in Flash Player, all is fine. I'm starting to suspect that chrome is automagically updating its built in flashplayer to a non-debug version. I wonder...

      So, I guess I'm going to use the debugger in Flash, but would still love to know if anyone has any idea of how to fix this in Chrome.

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      Adobe Employee
      Alex J Harui
      Adobe Employee
      July 2, 2010

      Reboot and try again.

      There are sites that will tell you if you have a debugger player or not

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